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Painting name: Still Life with Fruit Basket
Artist: Paul Cezanne
Genre: still life
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Museum d'Orsay, Paris, France
Paul Cézanne; (January 19,1839 – October 22,1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all"
Still life was an important genre to Cézanne, who made approximately two hundred such paintings over the course of four decades. In Still Life with Fruit Dish he created a shallow, compressed space that flattens the sculptural volumes of dish, glass, and fruit. This painting was a prized possession of the artist Paul Gauguin, who described the picture as "an exceptional pearl, the apple of my eye." It was only when he needed money for medical care that Gauguin unhappily parted with it.